Good morning, everybody. This morning, I sent a budget to Congress for the coming year. It’s a budget that reflects the serious challenges facing the country. We’re at war. Our economy has lost 7 million jobs over the last two years. And our government is deeply in debt after what can only be described as a decade of profligacy

President Harry Truman made the “the buck stops here” phrase popular. In his first year, President Barack Obama has invoked that phrase on several occasions, stepping up to take responsibility when his staff or party has messed up.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hey, folks. A year ago when President Obama established the Middle Class Task Force and asked me to chair it — and I might add, we were only in office I think two days, Melody, when he set up this Middle Class Task Force — because as we campaigned around the country, he made it clear that we were going to be sure that as we grew this economy, the middle class was not left behind as they had been the previous 10 to 12 years. And as we move from recession to recovery, our focus is the middle class.

Today, we pay tribute to a significant figure in the history of our country. Having grown up during segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. refused to accept the notion of an unequal America. He chose not to merely wait and hope for America’s promises of equality and justice to fulfill themselves, and instead dedicated his life to making these promises a reality.

“(T)here is not a liberal America and a conservative America — there is the United States of America. There is not a Black America and a White America and Latino America and Asian America — there’s the United States of America.”

Lets face it, it wasn’t that long ago when Blacks had to use different restroom facilities, back entrance to food establishments, denied entry to white schools, was hung or jailed for whistling at white women, denied the right to vote, and subjected to illegal syphilis contamination. Here we have a Black President attempting to introduce Health Care Reform to all Americans, something the Republicans didn’t even mention during their 8 years in power.

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has announced the availability of $27 million to help older individuals with chronic conditions to improve their health and reduce their use of costly medical care.

A winter storm system has hovered over Colorado’s high country for days, dropping plentiful amounts of snow on the state’s ski resorts.

THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. To the United States Corps of Cadets, to the men and women of our Armed Services, and to my fellow Americans: I want to speak to you tonight about our effort in Afghanistan — the nature of our commitment there, the scope of our interests.

The jobs picture is bleak — and continues to get worse. Now we’re told that if nothing is done, unemployment is likely to continue to rise through next year. States and localities, hit by plummeting tax revenues.

“Thank you all for having me here today. Thank you to Michael Sorrell for that introduction and for his work at Paul Quinn College, and my thanks as well to Michael Lomax for his incredible dedication as President of the UNCF.

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